Bruce Lee Fighting With Nunchuck Lightsabers Wins the Internet

Martial arts master Bruce Lee probably invented the badass movie fight scene, but because of some kind of huge injustice in the space-time continuum, he was never able to fight with a lightsaber in any of his movies. Luckily, that oversight has been corrected.

On Friday, Patrick Nan published a fan-made video which replaces Lee’s nunchucks in 1972’s Fist of Fury with a lightsaber variety. Lee’s combatant in the video wields a red lightsaber that seems to have initially been a katana.

Nan was apparently prompted to make the video based on a piece of fan art depicting Lee facing off against several Sith Lords, all of whom seem to be members of the either the Knights of Ren or dudes who dressed similarly to the fan-favorite Sith Lord, Darth Revan.

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